Quotes About Autonomy

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.

I've always been a singles guy.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone's like, 'Oh my God! We love this.'

Goldust is a singular character. I don't need to be put with anybody.

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister, or friends at my home. I have always preferred to be alone and independent and lived according to that.

I politely refuse to be part of movies where I have to do sister or sister-in-law to protagonists.

I used to say to myself when I was seven years old that I couldn't wait to get older so I could make money and buy my own clothes. I had a lot of sisters, so as we got older the hand-me-downs got better, but it wasn't until I was about 15 that I was able to buy my own stuff.

It feels like animation has a little more independence than traditional sitcoms ever did.

Netizens and site operators must find ways to police themselves in order to keep government interference to a minimum.

Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

I don't like people knowing about my business, and my situation, so I try to keep out of people's situations unless they come to me and ask for help.

I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

I know people who enjoy having 10 people running around and doing things for them. I don't. I feel awkward in such situations. It gives you a false sense of importance.

Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.

What I need to address are the situations when people are taking it upon themselves to think for me, make assumptions, or interpret things as if they are me. Last time I checked, my head was still attached to my body, so I'm the only one who knows exactly what I'm feeling, and that is not what I or the fans have been reading.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.

The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.

For six years, I was really on my own and did not have a coach.

We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.